I’ll admit it’s a bit of a cheat, and certainly doesn’t come close to a real hand-done watercolour (except, ya it does!) but it’s so much fun!

Perhaps it might even inspire one to really paint.

Our kitchen counter

becomes a sweet little vignette

A bedroom at the beach house (photo via House Beautiful)

Ta-fricking-da!

There are plenty of options to play with; depth of colours, brush strokes etc.

for example,

but don’t let this scare you in any way- click 3 times Dorothy and bam, you’re an artist.

It’s THAT easy.

Another pic from the beach house (photo via House Beautiful)

You can get as abstract as your little artistic heart desires

Waterlogues may be instantly emailed, tweeted, Tumblr-d, Instagramed, even sent as snail mail postcards directly from your account (for an additional $1.99)

“The Front Porch” store in Sun Valley, Idaho

I really like this one, even if I do say so myself, but that’s part of the fun. You never know how the pics will turn out. Some photos I think will be great don’t translate well and vice-versa. I’ve only just begun to play.

‘Waterlogue’ may very well have created their ultimate monster in me.

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Lastly, as my post title promised, a flashback…

Not sure how many of you caught the Grammy Awards last Sunday, but much ado was made of Pharrell’s choice of “chapeau”

Now I’m not one to toot my own horn ( except every possible chance I get 🙂 ) but the moment I spied that HAT I was transported right back to 1980’s London faster than you can say “Kajagoogoo”!

I couldn’t resist chiming in to the Twitter Universe immediately ( I believe I was the first to call it–cue horn) to inform all the haters that, in fact, Pharrell was sporting an uber cool vintage Vivienne Westwood/Malcom McLaren “Buffalo Girls” hat.

Yes, I’m that old and also apparently proud of it on occasion!

These were early, East Coast feed tweets, People!!

BTW, Ronan never tweeted me back. Whatever…see if I watch his new show now.

Although I realise Malcolm McLaren & Vivs Westwood weren’t as well known Stateside, if you’re young and even vaguely interested or, um, perhaps just wish to ignite old memories too, you can click to view the original video HERE

As I hash-tagged in my tweet…nothing’s ever really new, just re-intrepeted.

PS. Pharrell wore THE hat again the next night at the taping of ‘The Night That Changed America; A Grammy Salute to the The Beatles’ which I was most awesomely lucky enough to attend.

And what an brilliant show it was. I don’t want to spoil the surprises-just watch if you possibly can. It airs February 9th on CBS-50 years to the day The Beatles first appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Yes Slim, I know that you were in that music video “Too Shy” from Kagagoogoo. It was one of my favorite songs growing up. And, I do not mean to toot MY own horn but that app. is something that I do not need because I am too much of an excellent painter to need it.

Just started to see applications of that app on Instagram lately. Can’t wait to play! Your results are great! As for the hat, everything old is new again…one of the benefits of growing older, and wiser!

Of course just purchased after seeing your amazing results, even though I thoroughly enjoyed doing some of my own watercolors on our recent trip home from Australia.
I have already started to play with it but I don’t see the options list you showed….just a set of painting style examples along the bottom and then some numbers ( small, medium, large choices) and darker to lighter scale….where did you find that list of choices re paper, etc.
Thanks for any hints on how to use. Or which style you used most often, if any……
As always, love your photos and ideas!

Thanks Marsha
As I said, I’ve only JUST starting playing around with the App myself-so I’m by no means proficient yet. The painting examples and choices of sizing, light-dark, border/no border are all the options I’m seeing, but if you email one of your photos (just send it to yourself as a test) those other options are included in the body of the email, so I presume there are more choices if one delves deeper.
Hope this helps!

That app is great- i can’t wait to try it out! I took a virtually identical photograph at Amanwella this summer, one morning at breakfast. I have it as the wallpaper on my phone and people often ask me if it is a real place because it is so beautiful.

I feel a new addiction coming on…May even have to hang up my paint brushes…..hum….not. I’m getting that app before any of my East Coast Pinterest buddies find out about it! Seems to be all over the west coast right now!!!! BTW. love, love, love your kitchen!!! I’m about to get those countertops!!! xxxooo kb

Waterlogue blew up all over IG yesterday but I warn if you have a 16g iPhone loaded with music and photos, may not be enough memory to install IOS7 which is needed for Waterlogue. Bumping up against memory limit so much, I’m thinking of upgrading to 32G this weekend… And getting Waterlogue!

Did get the app. Love it. I played around with current photos to see what worked best. Now that I know, can’t wait to take pictures and convert them to “watercolors” to display in my home. I did not see all the options/modifications you listed – that would make this good app an even better one. Thanks for sharing!

Wow! wish waterlogue was around when I attempted watercolor paintings..all I made were Rorschach prints over and over…while the chick next to me made adorable winter scenes of ice skates, fuzzy mittens and cats. Very annoying! But technology has come to my rescue now…soooo happy! Thanks for sharing, you find all the cool stuff, Slim!

Being English I should have recognised the Westwood influence but really thought,like a previous reader it was a Canadian mounty hat,you really have become true American not noticing that! Already waterlogued,great app, did you know that fashion trends AW -14/15 highlight painterly,which is in effect a handpainted print ….

Oh my — In the past 24 hours, I have Waterlogued EVERYTHING … old family snapshots, my friends’ houses, flowers, palm trees, sunset/sunrise, postcards, impressionists’ paintings, my toes, and on and on. Truly an impressive amount of fun for $2.99. Did you know that the creator has two other photo editing apps: percolator and popsicolor? Percolator looks kinda klimt-y. Thanks so much for the app tip and for the hours of enjoyment I get from reading your wonderful blog. Susan

Just ordered and love this app I am a watercolorist and I do acrylics but can always use another eye to give a new spin on what I am painting will help in format of ra painting and help with scale!,I love it

I am DANGEROUSLY obsessed with this now. Just what I need. More art. I feel a little light headed I’m so excited. Thaaank you! But also I may never forgive you when I have to lease another storage unit for my archival library of watercolors for everything that has ever been photographed.

What a fabulous app! And thank you so much for showing off our store. We love the patio in the summer time, especially when we have the brightly colored furniture. We hope you come back to visit The Picket Fence in Sun Valley, ID again! {Not the Front Porch store, sorry! :/ }